Overview

The goal of Micro is to provide a toolkit for microservice development and management. At the core, micro is simple and accessible enough that anyone can easily get started writing microservices. As you scale to hundreds of services, micro will provide the fundamental tools required to manage a microservice environment.

API - An API Gateway that serves HTTP and routes requests to appropriate micro services. It acts as a single entry point and can either be used as a reverse proxy or translate HTTP requests to RPC.

Web - A web dashboard and reverse proxy for micro web applications. We believe that web apps should be built as microservices and therefore treated as a first class citizen in a microservice world. It behaves much the like the API reverse proxy but also includes support for web sockets.

Sidecar - The Sidecar is a language agnostic RPC Proxy which provides all the features of go-micro as a HTTP endpoints. While we love Go and believe it's a great language to build microservices, you may also want to use other languages, so the Sidecar provides a way to integrate your other apps into the Micro world. It can be used as a standalone way to build fault tolerant microservices.

CLI - A straight forward command line interface to interact with your micro services. It also allows you to leverage the Sidecar as a proxy where you may not want to directly connect to the service registry.

Bot A Hubot style bot that sits inside your microservices platform and can be interacted with via Slack, HipChat, XMPP, etc. It provides the features of the CLI via messaging. Additional commands can be added to automate common ops tasks.

Quick start

Alternatively we can use multicast DNS with the built in MDNS registry for a zero dependency configuration. Just pass --registry=mdns to the below commands e.g. server --registry=mdns or micro --registry=mdns list services.